Nightingale

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.

   “Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare”

2. isim A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.
3. özel isim A surname.

   “After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.”

4. özel isim A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after Florence Nightingale.
5. isim A temporary facility built at short notice during the COVID-19 pandemic, or by extension any other emergency.

   “In June, the National Education Union wrote to the government, asking it to set up “Nightingale schools”: classrooms in churches, libraries and leisure centres.”